https://spacewatch.global/tag/plesetsk-cosmodrome/ AN INDEPENDENT PERSPECTIVE ON SPACE Tue, 15 Dec 2020 07:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://spacewatch.global/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/SpaceWatchGlobal-Sign-90x90.png https://spacewatch.global/tag/plesetsk-cosmodrome/ 32 32 https://spacewatch.global/2020/12/russia-launches-second-angara-a5-heavy-rocket-test/ Tue, 15 Dec 2020 07:00:00 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=29077&preview=true&preview_id=29077 https://spacewatch.global/2020/10/russia-satellite-navigation-glonass-soyuz/ Tue, 27 Oct 2020 07:00:00 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=27668&preview=true&preview_id=27668 Russia launches next Glonass navigation satellite]]> https://spacewatch.global/2020/04/spacewatchgl-opinion-russias-nudol-asat-test-a-short-analysis/ Tue, 21 Apr 2020 11:00:34 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=21730 Recently, Russia announced that it will conduct a test of its Nudol ASAT system on 15 April 2020. In fact, such a test was subsequently carried out. The ground-based ballistic missile took off from its test site in Plesetsk, in north-western Russia.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2020/04/spacewatchgl-opinion-russias-military-exploitation-of-outer-space/ Sun, 19 Apr 2020 11:00:54 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=21671 This essay was originally published by the Eurasia Daily Monitor of  The Jamestown Foundation on 8 April 2020, and is republished here with their kind permission. The original essay can be found here.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2020/04/russia-tests-pl-19-nudol-direct-ascent-asat-system/ Fri, 17 Apr 2020 05:00:29 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=21651 Russia reportedly tested its A-235 PL-19 Nudol direct-ascent antisatellite (ASAT) weapon system on 15 April 2020, according to U.S. Space Command and independent observers.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2020/02/soyuz-rocket-launches-russian-military-satellite-after-one-month-delay/ Wed, 26 Feb 2020 06:00:33 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=19753 A Russian military communications satellite rode a Soyuz rocket and Fregat upper stage on 20 February 2020 into an orbit stretching nearly 25,000 miles (40,000 kilometers) above Earth, successfully launching after a one-month delay to replace a suspect third stage on the Soyuz booster.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2018/12/russia-to-decommission-rokot-slv-and-make-only-one-launch-from-vostochny-in-2019/ Thu, 20 Dec 2018 06:00:36 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=12035 The last two launches of the Rokot satellite launch vehicle fitted with a Ukrainian-made control system will be carried out in 2019, after which the vehicle will be decommissioned, a source in the Russian space industry told Russian news outlet Sputnik on 18 December 2018.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2018/12/russian-military-space-rokot-launches-three-strela-3m-communications-satellites/ Mon, 03 Dec 2018 06:00:53 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=11696 The Russian military successfully launched three Strela-3M communications satellites on 30 November 2018 from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Northwest Russia, according to reports from TASS, the Russian state news agency.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2017/10/sentinel-5p-successfully-launched-monitor-worlds-pollution/ Mon, 16 Oct 2017 05:05:14 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=6002 The Airbus-built pollution monitoring satellite Sentinel-5 Precursor has been successfully launched on a Rockot from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia at 09.27 GMT on Friday, October 13, 2017. Sentinel-5 Precursor is part of the Copernicus global monitoring programme, a joint European Commission–European Space Agency undertaking which aims to acquire continuous and accurate Earth observation data […]]]>